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Food price inflation and schooling
Grimm, Michael - 2008
In the middle of the nineties the rural population in Burkina Faso was seriously hit by rising food prices. Whereas cotton farmers were able to cope with this shock given the simultaneous boom in the cotton sector, food crop farmers had to withdraw children from school and to let them work more...
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Acquisitions, productivity, and profitability: Evidence from the Japanese cotton spinning industry
Braguinsky, Serguey; Ohyama, Atsushi; Okazaki, Tetsuji; … - 2014
We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century, we find a more nuanced picture than the...
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Am Beispiel Baumwolle: Flächennutzungskonkurrenz durch exportorientierte Landwirtschaft
Paulitsch, Katharina - 2004
und dort zu Flächennutzungskonkurrenzen führt. Der konventionelle Baumwollanbau in Entwicklungsländern birgt eine Reihe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296140
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Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
Beckert, Jens - 2017
Capitalist dynamics is energized in part by imaginaries of future states of the world (Beckert 2016). The paper deals …Kapitalistische Dynamik wird auch von Vorstellungen zukünftiger Zustände der Welt vorangetrieben (Beckert 2016). Der …
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Wissenschaftler auf Zeit: Die Durchsetzung der Personalpolitik der Befristung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft seit den 1970er-Jahren
Leendertz, Ariane - 2020
aus der ganzen Welt so viele freie Wissenschaftlerstellen wie möglich anzubieten. … new ones in their place, and offer the newly appointed directors from around the world as many vacant positions as …
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Beer Drinking Nations. The Determinants of Global Beer Consumption.
Colen, Liesbeth; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2010
been major changes in beer consumption in the world. In recent times, per capita consumption has decreased in traditional …
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The development and implementation of IMF and World Bank conditionality
Dreher, Axel - 2002
The paper presents a detailed description of IMF and World Bank conditionality and tries to explain changes in this … conditions seem to be influenced by contemporaneous World Bank activity. Moreover, the paper tries to explain compliance with … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank …
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History matters in microfinance
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2003
institutions (MFIs). Every now developed country has its own history of microfinance. It is important to recognize this because it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297106
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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004
World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …
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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in …
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